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City of London School

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Endowed by John Carpenter Town Clerk in 1442. The Corporation of London by an Act of Parliament in 1834 established the School at Honey Lane market in Milk Street. In 1883 the School moved to the Victoria Embankment near Blackfriars Bridge. And in 1986 to a new building in Queen Victoria Street where it remains.

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City of London School

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City of London School - EC2

Site of the City of London School, 1835 - 1882 The Corporation of the City of...

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City of London School - EC4, Embankment

Wikipedia gives the architects as "Davis and Emanuel Pevsner". We believe the...

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City of London School - EC4 - Q.Victoria St

The City of London School was endowed by John Carpenter, Town Clerk in 1442. ...

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Tobias Matthay

Tobias Matthay

Teacher and pianist.  Born Clapham.  1903 he published "The Act of Touch" a book on piano playing technique and learning.  This and other books and his Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School in Oxford St...

Person, Education, Music / songs

1 memorial
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School

Queen Elizabeth I granted the charter in 1573.  Set up in the Barnet Tudor Hall the school did not relocate until 1932 when it moved the short distance to Queen's Road.

Group, Education

2 memorials
Hisanari Murahashi

Hisanari Murahashi

Became a student at UCL in 1865.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial
Central London District Schools

Central London District Schools

There are several different names which all apply to the same institution. The Central London School District was formed in 1849, when the school district's board acquired a privately owned buildi...

Building, Education

2 memorials
St John of Wapping School

St John of Wapping School

The school was originally founded in 1695, although its first location is unknown, as is its closure date. The bluecoat statues are probably the finest examples in London.

Building, Education

3 memorials

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St Augustine's Church, Victoria Park

St Augustine's Church, Victoria Park

This church was built, inside the Park, in 1867 to meet the needs of the expanding population, 22 years after the Park opened in 1845.  Following WW2 bomb damage the church was demolished (our end ...

Building, Religion

2 memorials
Fireman Barry Charles Trussell

Fireman Barry Charles Trussell

Died a month after attending a fire in the Intensive Care Unit of Tooting’s St Georges Hospital. He was buried following a sudden flash explosion in the storeroom, taken to the special burns unit o...

Person, Emergency Services

1 memorial
Millennium Measure

Millennium Measure

EC4, Millennium Bridge, Under the bridge

This monument is a tall, triangular, pyramidal, glass case containing a steel rule, 2 metres long, marked off in millimetres. That's a p...

1 subject commemorated, 3 creators
Plaque 1 - Geards

Plaque 1 - Geards

SW18, Chapel Yard, 2, Clore Building

Currently, 2011, used by the National Opera as a studio. The current building is a hall, opened in 1883, with a total of 6 plaques all on...

1 subject commemorated
Ernest Raymond

Ernest Raymond

NW3, East Heath Road, The Pryors, 22

Ernest Raymond, novelist, 1888 - 1974, author of more than fifty books included Tell England and We, the Accused, lived at 22 The Pryors,...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator